Greetings, I have just subscribed and hopefully I am not breaking any list etiquette here, but I wanted to respond to the thread that was started back in April on Improving the Documentation for OpenSSL.
http://marc.info/?l=openssl-dev&m=139832883828644 I am a developer (BS CS, Minor in Math) but not up to speed with the OpenSSL library and more to my immediate interests, the cryptographic library that is part of OpenSSL. I am looking at using it in an upcoming project, but I definitely need to learn more about crypto. However, getting started with OpenSSL from reading the main project page at openssl.org and the wiki leaves a bit to be desired. The wiki was very useful however as it was the only place I could find usage examples ;) It took me a while to get started with a simple example and just getting an overview of the API is not easy (yes the source code which I am using). I also noticed that some of the code examples need to be updated. So I think that there are really three different areas of documentation that would be useful: - User documentation for the command line applications - Developer documentation for the OpenSSL / Crypto APIs - Up to date code examples for the usage of the APIs Having a single online resource for this would be great (unless I am completely missing a resource here). My main incentive is to provide a resource that developers could use to get started with the API quickly while also providing inline best practices and good coding examples. I have sent an email requesting access to the wiki and am interested in helping out where I can. Sorry for the long message! Regards, Casey
